Fish Outta Water (Haru x Makoto)

Chapter Six

Haru's POV:

After Makoto and I got out of the pool, we went back to my house. Though we would casually converse as usual on the way home, the unspoken question still hung in the air like smog: "Are we dating now?" Neither me or Makoto had ever had girlfriends. I mean, I had been confessed to countless times, but I had always turned them down. Until now... I turned towards Makoto and said, "I accept."

"Eh? Accept what?" Makoto asked, looking more confused than ever. I had forgotten that it had been about half an hour since we had that moment, and Makoto couldn't hear my thoughts, therefore my sudden statement sounded sort of insane.

"Sorry.. forget I said that," I said. I didn't feel like explaining it.

"A- alright..."

Makoto's POV:

Damn... I was really hoping he was accepting my confession. I know he told me he loved me, but Haru never said he wanted to go out with me. Do I have to do it again? No... that would be stupid. I'll just wait for his answer. I looked over at Haru. He looked totally distracted, starring out the window. All I wanted to do was wrap him in my arms and hold him forever... but I feel like something like that would make Haru uncomfortable.

"Haru--"

"My phone is ringing," before I could talk, Haru reached into his pocket and pulled out his buzzing cell phone. "It never does this.." Haru obviously wasn't planning on answering it, so I plucked it out of his grasp and looked at the caller ID.

"It's Nagisa," I examined. "Do you want me to answer it?"

"Go ahead," Haru said lying down on the floor, looking uninterested in everything that was happening.

I clicked the button to answer Nagisa's call, and set it to speaker-phone, letting Nagisa's voice echo throughout the room.

"Ah! Haru-Chan answered!? That's new!" Nagisa chimed.

"Hehe.. It's me.." I said.

"Mako-chan? Is Haru with you?" Nagisa asked.

"Yeah."

"Oh, good," he said. "You'll never guess who's here."

"Eh? Who?"

"Rin-chan!"

I noticed Haru flinch slightly when Rin's name was mentioned. Even I was shocked, but I doubt that I was more surprised than Haru.

"Makoto?" Nagisa asked when I stopped responding.

"O- oh. Sorry, Nagisa," I refocused my attention to the phone. "Is he with you right now?"

"Yeah. And he said he wanted to see Haru-Chan. Can you two come here now?"

"Now?" I asked.

"Now."

"I don't know--"

"We'll be there," Haru suddenly sat up and answered, then quickly closed the phone. "Let's go, Makoto."